The Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub Solo by Goethe-Institut, Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship and ISI Surakarta enables young artists and cultural communities to be more entrepreneurial – helping them to achieve not only sustainable creative and financial success for themselves but also contribute to the social inclusion, economic empowerment, and cultural revitalization of their communities.

Once established the Hub will offer start-up training and will function as an incubation center; a space enabling entrepreneurial artists and cultural communities to create socially inclusive and economically empowered society. During the kick-off, a public discussion on the concept and benefits of cultural entrepreneurship is followed by a 3-day Training-for-Trainers Entrepreneurship Bootcamp using the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship Innovation Process method and modules.

The Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub Solo specifically focuses on working with young artists in the performing and classical arts. Not only is Indonesian dance, music, and theatre strongly rooted in its history, tradition, and communal life. Because of Indonesia’s cultural diversity, it also offers a unique variety of artistic expressions. And – unlike in the sectors of visual arts and design – entrepreneurial thinking and skills are not yet playing a significant role in performing artists’ education and professional perspectives, despite the great potential.

Discussion: Cultural Entrepreneurship for Social Inclusion and Economic Equity
with Dr. Johann-Jakob Wulf, Moritz Hoffmann, & Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo
02.05.2018 | 09:00-11:30
Open to the public
Language: English

The Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub Solo in cooperation with Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Surakarta is part of the project „Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs“ by Goethe-Institut and Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. The pilot project connects three hubs in Greece, South Africa and Indonesia with each other and the German creative industries and aims at strengthening entrepreneurial thinking and acting in the cultural scenes as well as building a global network of cultural entrepreneurs.

Features, reports and interviews from around the world: Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs ‘It brings us closer together’

The library of the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg houses a “Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub”. Curator Nthato Malope speaks about the special place, the work he does with the different hubbers and his participation in the Munich Creative Business Week.

Mr. Malope, what is a „Creative Entrepreneurship Hub“ exactly?

A „creative hub“, or a „creative entrepreneurship hub“, is basically a safe space for entrepreneurs to come around and develop their own entrepreneurship abilities. A lot of creative individuals, whether they are architects, graphic designers, gamers, or people in the performing arts, they are creating their own businesses. Even though they don’t know the trade, they don’t know how develop their businesses, or they don’t know financial management yet. And so the creative hub that we’ve created is a place where artists in the creative sectors can come to us and learn how to take their businesses to the next level. Whatever that next level might be.
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Press release from 5 March 2018

Press release: Promoting Creative Entrepreneurial Spirit Together

Four partners are combining their expertise to support and network cultural and creative industries in Germany and internationally. The public Funding Network for Cultural and Creative Industries in Germany (PCI), founded in 2016, and the Federal Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Germany (Creative Germany), are ideal partners for the Goethe-Institut and the Strascheg Centre for Entrepreneurship ( SCE) in the further development of their joint Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub project, which is funded by the Federal Foreign Office.

The project – Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs

Greece, Indonesia and South Africa: together with the Strascheg Centre for Entrepreneurship, the Goethe-Institut has been supporting the establishment of local Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs in Thessaloniki, Jakarta and Johannesburg since 2016. The Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs of the Goethe-Institut are focal points for actors in local cultural and creative industry scenes. They serve as junctures of innovation, entrepreneurial thinking and the action of smaller cultural enterprises so that synergies can be better utilized and start-up ideas brought onto the market. The Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs impart entrepreneurial know-how to cultural professionals and networks them with the creative industry scene in Germany. Through this continuing educational service, the Goethe-Institut enables free access to knowledge and qualification in the cultural and creative sector, creating both regional and global networks for creative artists and actors in creative industry. …

Bootcamp at the new Hub at Goethe-Institut Johannesburg on how best to improve their businesses hustles.

1st Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in South Africa

The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg holds a three-day intensive entrepreneurship bootcamp facilitated by the Goethe-Institut & The Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship. The idea is to learn from and share with fellow businessmen and women from the new Hub at Goethe-Institut Johannesburg on how best to improve their businesses hustles.

What is the Bootcamp about?

Participants will learn about tools and methods of business modelling in order to boost your business e.g.:

Deriving a vision from your internal motivation

Synthesizing business ideas after finding out more about customer needs

Promotion of Creative Industry: Springboard for young designers

Germany is a country of founders. A multitude of networks, associations and state offers are helping young designers gain a foothold in the business..

The results surprised even industry insiders: for the second time, a study of the American news magazine U.S. News & World Report chose Germany in 2017 as the most entrepreneur-friendly country in the world. Up to now, Germany has rather been looked upon as a country with strongly established industries, bureaucracy and lack of venture capital. But now a lively entrepreneurial culture has established itself, with more than 6,000 start-up companies that benefit from a wide range of funding.

Not only ministries of economics offer support; diverse offers are also listed in the funding databases of the federal government, the federal states and the European Union. Non-state networks and associations are also possible sponsors. …read full article

Meet Johannesburg hubber like ’Watt-A-Woman founder Morwesi Ramonyai.

Watt-A-Woman is an app-based project that seeks to achieve economic inclusion of women, particularly from rural and underdeveloped areas, in the renewable energy sector. It promotes “earnership” of energy projects, by providing matching funds to women who make a small financial contribution towards a renewable energy project in their community. A future element of the project will be a gamified feature that encourages access to information, financial literacy and peer to peer support..

To get a first impression about the newly set up Cultural Entrepreneurship Hub in Johannesburg see Hub@Goethe and meet Johannesburg hubber like ‘Watt-A-Woman founder Morwesi Ramonyai.

Our new Hub@Goethe is situated on the gallery level of the Goethe-Institut’s Library-Gamebox-Hub space. Eight workplaces are available for creative entrepreneurs who are working on an innovative and digital project. The seats are allocated according to a “call for applications” for a defined period of six months. Due to our focus on the field of digital games, projects in this area are preferred. The eight hubbers can present their project to the public twice during their stay at the Hub@Goethe. The hubbers will be provided with mentoring tailored to their needs, through individual mentoring and group mentoring. They are also encouraged to share and expand their knowledge through our eSkills Connect programme, which offers informal training sesions for the general public. The Goethe-Institut is striving for a network with other hubs in Johannesburg. The hubbers at the Hub@Goethe are then given the opportunity to exchange ideas and information informally with other hubs… read full article

The Consortium is building Cultural Entrepreneurship Hubs at Goethe-Institut Greece, Indonesia and South Africa.